Dugu Zixuan was unsettled, still somewhat doubtful.
What Yun Yao said made sense. In a completely sealed situation, no matter how someone had vanished, the essence of the cover-up remained unchanged.
Lin Zhique wanted everyone to believe he was still at the Green Pavilion Sect, in closed-door cultivation beneath the Main Peak. He had likely disappeared the very day he returned to the Green Pavilion Sect severely wounded.
Whew~
Lin Heng let out a deep breath. After his gaze drifted elsewhere and he hesitated for a moment, he turned his head and said, "I think this is related to whoever carried me away as a child. According to Long San, when that bastard old man returned from the Eastern Continent to the Western Continent, he was ambushed and killed at the eastern shore by the Left Faction of Martial Arts."
"They certainly would not have wanted a head-on clash with a Dao Integration powerhouse. Yet in the end, I vanished without a trace, right beneath everyone's noses."
"Think about it, everyone. What sort of person could take away an infant under the watchful eyes of a group of Martial Path cultivators, within the Divine Sense range of a Dao Integration powerhouse?"
Everyone fell silent for a moment. In the end, Meng Yutong was the first to raise her eyes. She answered in an almost certain tone, "Sect Leader Lin played the role of protecting his child during the battle, while the Left Faction of Martial Arts played the role of snatching him away. The focus would inevitably have been on you. Therefore..."
"Therefore, the person who quietly appeared and took you away had to be an acquaintance of Lin Zhique's. He had no time to look after you himself, so he had that person take you away!" Dugu Zixuan followed